Wire-fence machine.



for curling over the edges of the tape and roughly shaping the tobacco filler, a shapingdie having a closed channel fitted to the tape and filler with a cap removable to expose the same, means for heating the shaping die whereby the cigarette-rod is simultaneously ironed and pressed, means for cutting fillers of suitable length from the continuous cigarette-rod, a filler-wheel having a series of open molds adapted to receive the tillerslaterally and provided each with a movable jaw to press the fillers, and means for discharging the fillers from the molds when pressed.

5. In a cigarettemachine, the combination, with an endless moving tape and a feeder for depositing tobacco thereon, of a feed-guide for curling over the edges of the tape and roughly shaping the tobacco filler, a shapingdie having a tapering channel to form and set the cigarette-rod within the tape, cutters for dividing the cigarette-rod into individual fillers, a filler-wheel provided with a series of molds having each a movable jaw at one side and arrangedv to receive the fillers cut from the continuous cigarette-rod, an ad-' jacent shell-carrier with a series of sockets therein, means for feeding cigarette-shells to the sockets, and means for forcing the fillers from the molds into the shells.

'6. In a cigarette-machine, the combination, with an endless moving tape and a feeder for depositing tobacco thereon, of a feed-guide for curling over the edges of the tape and roughly shaping the tobacco filler-rod, a shaping-die having a tapering channel to form and set the cigarette-rod within the tape, a means for severing the filler-rod into individual fillers, a filler-Wheel provided with a series of molds having each a movable jaw at one side and arranged to receive laterally the fillers cut from the continuous filler-rod,'a'n adjacent shell-carrier with a series of sockets therein, means for feedin g cigarette-shells to the sockets, a nozzle supported between the fillerwheel and shell-carrier,'means for forcing the shells successively upon the nozzle, and means adjacent shell-carrier having sockets to re-.

ceive the shells, a nozzle supported between the filler-wheel and the shell-carrier, means for forcing the shells successively upon the nozzle,and means for reciprocating the ejector to force the fillers successively from the molds through the nozzle into the shells.

8. In acigarettemachine, the combination, with means for forming a continuous filler-rod and dividing the same into individual fillers, of a horizontal Wheel having radial cavities to receive the fillers and a chamber within the wheel to receive an ejector, means for turning the wheel to shift the position of the cavities, a slide below the plane of the wheel with upright support carrying an ejector within the chamber in line with the cavities when shifted, and means for reciprocating the slide to eject the fillers from the cavities.

9. In a cigarette-machine, the combination, with means for forming a continuous filler-rod and dividing the same into individual tillers, of a horizontal wheel having radial cavities to receive the fillers and a chamber within the wheel to receive an ejector, ratchet mechan-- ism and a cam for intermittingly turning the wheel to shift the cavities, the slide m below the plane of the wheel with upright support carrying an ejector within the chamberin line with the cavities when shifted and a cam and connections'to the slide for reciprocating the ejector intermediate to the movements of the wheel, while the cavities are held stationary.

10. In a cigarette-machine, the combination with a filler-wheel provided with a series of molds having each a movable jaw at one side, of an adjacent shell-carrier with a series of sockets therein and means for feeding cigarette-shells to the sockets, means for turning the fillerwheel and the shell-carrier intermittingly to aline the shells with the molds,and

means to force the fillers into the shells successively.

11. In a cigarette-machine, the combination, with a filler-wheel provided with a series of molds having each a movable. jaw at one I side, of an adjacent shell-carrier with a series of sockets therein and means for feeding cigarette-shells to the sockets, ratchet-wheels connected with the filler-wheel and with the shell-carrier, a reciprocating bar with pawls fitted respectively to the said ratchet-wheels, whereby the mold-wheel and shell-carrier are moved inunison intermittingly to bring the molds in line with the shells, and means to force the fillers from the molds into theshells.

having the disk P with a series of stationary mold-jaws a fixed at intervals thereon in the same plane, the series of pressing-jaws a fixed movably upon the disk adjacent to the jaws a, and provided each with a spring to hold the rnold-cavity normally closed, means for turning the wheel intermittently to admit fill- 'ers successively to the mold-cavities, and

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12. In a cigarette-machine, a filler-wheel UNITED STATES Patented November-10, 1903.

Anson o. MILLs, on JACKSON, MICHIGAN,

WIRE-FENC E'MACHINE.

SPEGIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 748,740, dated November 10, 190 3.

Application filed March 23, 1903.

To aZZ whom it may cortcern:

Be it known that I, Anson O. MILLS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jackson,

in the county of Jackson and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful I Improvements in Wire-Fence Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvementsin wire-fence machines, and more particularly to such machines as are shown and described in Patent No. 698,533 to Mills and Lamb, dated April 29, 1902, and upon which thisinvention is a specific improvement.

The object of this invention is to simplify the construction of the machine, to render the same more durable, and to provide the device with certain new and useful features, as hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

My invention consists, essentially, in the substitution for the means shown in the said patent for crossing the ends of the fastener of a fixed plate attached to the upper roll and having converging surfaces to engage and bend the ends of the fastener toward each other and cross the same above the longitudinal wire, as will more fully appear by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a wirefence machine embodyingmy inven-, tion; Fig. 2, a detail of a portion of the same on an enlarged scale and shown in central vertical section in the plane of the longitudinal wire of the fence, and Fig. 3 an elevationof the same as Fig. 2 viewed from the left of the same and with parts removed tov show the construction. 1

Like letters refer to like parts in all of the figures.

A and B represent the main shafts, journaled in a suitable frame and simultaneously rotated by connecting-gears E E, a worm-gear O, and a worm D.

Fand G are the wheels, mounted on the Serial No. 149,056. (No model.)

M is the presser, actuated by the spring M to engage the wires at the crossing.

J J arethe slides to turn up the ends of the fastener at each side of the wire 0.

K is the slide to finally turn down the ends of the fastener after they have been crossed.

H H are the cams, having grooves H to engage the rolls J and operate the slides J.

I I are the cams, having the projections I to engage the rolls K and operate the slide K.

So far the device is substantially the same as shown in the aforesaid patent.

My improved means for crossing the ends of the fasteners Q after they have been turned up at each side of the wire 0 consists of the plate N, having upwardly-converging surfaces N in its lower edge adapted to slidably engage the respective'ends of the fasteners and force them toward and across each other above the wire 0 after they have been turned up at each side of the same by the slide J. This plate is arrangedsubstantially radially and transversely on the rim of the wheel G and close to the slide 'K, and as the wheels rotate this plate operates between the action of the slide J and the slide K and crosses the ends of the fastener above the wire 0, as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 8. 

